U.S.airlines are seeing a major interruption because of hundreds of flights canceled due to the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano,but European flight companies will face the biggest losses.
The airline business has been tough:The decline dramatically slowed traffic;February heavy snow forced U.S.airlines to cancel thousands of flights;and now the ashes from the volcano stopped all traffic in and out of northern Europe for days.
“For U.S.flight companies,it'll be a relatively shortterm hit,” said Michael Boyd,president of Boyd Group International,an aviation (航空学) consulting firm.“We think right now they're down about $ 80 million in terms of lost income,and they're down domestically about 80,000 passengers that would have been flying domestically but aren't because they can't get here.”
Delta announced that volcanorelated interruption grounded about 400 flights until Monday at a cost of $ 20 million in lost revenues(收入).But by comparison,the airline canceled 7,000 flights and lost $ 65 million in revenue due to the recent snowstorms.
The disruption has created uncertainty for customers,but analysts say U.S.airlines won't face as many costs as you might think.They are not flying in extra planes to handle the passengers in trouble because companies simply don't have them.“Airlines run a very lean operation now,” Mann said.“So,since there are no spare aircraft or crews,the airlines will attempt to maximize loads on every one of their aircraft that do fly.But it may take days,or in some cases a week or so,to get some of these customers to where they want to go.”
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